The Man From Planet X
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Movie Reviews of The Man From Planet X
Movie Review: It's true!
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, that "title" got your attention, didn't it?
I remember seeing part of this when I was about 11. I always wanted it. So I've looked for it on those sci-fi collection sets, you know, every paper mache horror short of Godzilla, abominable snowmen, every attempt to scare the pre-adolescent, most of which had special effects budgets of around $5. But I could never find it. Then, while in Florida last Christmas, at a video store, some told me it was "out of print." (I think that's the phrase I heard. Was I dreaming? Or nightmaring???)
Well, I finally got it, and, sure enough, the Scottish accents are worse than I remember them. But the fine special effect live up to my expectations!
Oh, one of the actors, William Schallert, was in an old "Star Trek" episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles." That makes it worth is, doesn't it?
The story line was pretty standard 1950s sci fi: the guy's invading us and wants to take over us innocent earthlings. But it had a little of a "moral":If we'd treated this creature nicely, who knows what wonderful things we may have learned from such an advanced species!
I won't want to give away too much of the "plot." Just enjoy it, and don't anticipate staying awake too late fearing an invasion from a plastic-faced alien who can't even smile!
Movie Review: A cult movie about alien invasion
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Man of Planet X" (1951 - 70 minutes), is a delicious cult of science fiction directed by Edgar G. Ulmer from the story of Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, and with the main actors: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond and William Schallert.
Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) works in an observatory in the Scottish island of Burray and discovers a new planet in the Solar System, Planet "X". The route of the enigmatic celestial body will pass quite near the planet Earth.
John Lawrence (Robert Clarke), an American journalist friend of Elliot, goes to the island to get information about the unusual fact and finds Dr. Mears there (William Schallert), an unscrupulous scientist and his disaffection.
The professor Elliot's daughter, Eunid (Margaret Field), is the first one to see a stranger alien spaceship and its occupant, after having her car damaged in a road with much fog, at night. The mysterious space traveler makes contact with professor Elliot and his friends and will use a device to control their minds.
Is the visitor friendly? What are his intentions? What is his relationship with Planet "X"?
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Movie Review: The hour is near and The Man from Planet X will be waiting
Summary: 4 Stars
The story is mostly narrated by a newspaperman John Lawrence (Robert Clarke) that also takes part in an adventure that we now hear only as a rumor. It takes place in 1951 on an isolated Scottish island near the end of the world (in more ways than one). A planet (Planet X) is approaching ours and they seam to have sent a vanguard for what purpose we do not know.
To fathom this out is a renowned scientist Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) his demure daughter Enid (Margaret Field) and the newspaperman. Also aboard the characters is Dr. Mears (William Schallert) who has a nefarious past and should have gotten twenty years. Friend or foe what will we find? And how will Dr. Mears communicate?
As Planet X approaches the hour is near and The Man from Planet X will be waiting.
Movie cost $41,000 over a six day shoot, on a soundstage original built for Joan of Arc.
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Movie Review: OOOOH, that's a scary movie.
Summary: 4 Stars
Isn't that what Joe Flaherty used to say on SCTV? Well it sure was when I was nine! When that alien peeked out of the space ship window at my first movie love - Margaret Field, I freaked out. Ms. Field, by the way, is Sally Field's (yup that Sally Field) mother - a little movie trivia I haven't seen reported yet, and another reason to view the movie.
That and it's fun.
Movie Review: B SciFi Movie for the Thinking Man
Summary: 4 Stars
There is more than meets the eye here. Alien space ships not withstanding, this is an intelligent film with good characters bolstered by good dialogue. The deliberate pace of the film and the intelligent point of view displayed through the characters make this good filmmaking. Not your conventional ending either.